This monologue has been developed form a split scene performance about a young, aboriginal child, who has been taken away from her aboriginal family so that she can be adopted into a white family.

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Tanushri Gukhool (10c) GCSE Drama (1699) Paper 1, Unit 1 Portfolio Task 1 (AO1) - Development This monologue has been developed form a split scene performance about a young, aboriginal child, who has been taken away from her aboriginal family so that she can be adopted into a white family.      Clover unfreezes. She is five years old with long dark hair, messy and unbrushed. Her white outfit stands out against her dark skin. Her face shows uncertainty and pure confusion. She doesn’t feel she belongs there, but she ahs no choice. Why am standing here with people who look so different to me? (She looks to the audience for an answer). This can’t be
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right, mum mummy and daddy look like me, have the same skin, same hair, same eyes, same everything. So do my brothers and sisters. We’re all the same (looking around confused). Not like these people. My family wears the same clothes as me. (Pause - looks down in disgust as what she is wearing now)…not what I’m wearing now! (Face suddenly turns bright and happy, and her voice gets louder) we live on land, outside with nature and the wilderness. (Remembering where she is her voice gets deeper and quieter, begins to sound upset) Not in houses with lots of ...

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This monologue has been developed form a split scene performance about a young, aboriginal child, who has been taken away from her aboriginal family so that she can be adopted into a white family.
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